re: OFFICIAL Liverpool FC 2014-2015 Season Long Thread

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Of course, he's played for 4 clubs since without it being an issue... Our luck, he'd drop dead during the photo shoot, minutes after he signed..

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This is horrible.

But I laughed.

The Daily Fail is saying we are interested in Pirlo.

Holy shite if true.

STEVIE

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Sturridge is really good, and Balotelli is full of talent. That is easy to see. Coutinho is an effective player, and I think he is our most creative in attack.

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Sturridge has been hurt for probably half his time at the club, sure Balotelli has technical skill, but he's massively underachieved everywhere he's been. I agree we haven't used him the best, but that still doesn't mean we're loaded with striking talent especially when you consider we have Lambert and Borini behind them.

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The reasons I don't like Sterling are simple. He doesn't pass. He feels like he has to do everything, but he doesn't have the skill to do that yet... nor do I think he will. How many times has he ran right at someone, stoppedn tried to get fancy, and squandered his chance? A ton. And most of those chances there was an opportunity to get an assist.

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I agree with you on a lot of this, but he's still what? 21? Think he's just itching to prove himself and do too much. Does he deserve 150k a week wages? frick no. Do I wanna get rid of him? frick no.

I think he does need a swift kick in the arse though. Reminds me of the time Suarez and Sterling had a 2 on 1 with the keeper and Suarez took the shot to get a hat trick. Sterling was upset and he has that similar mentality but he obviously doesn't have anywhere near the skill of Suarez to do that. Think he needs more talent around him to see that he isn't as good as he thinks he is, and he doesn't have to do as much of the work either.

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Rodgers, isn't it on him to develop these players and extract their true potential? Instead, we haven't seen Sterling learn, the creativity has been almost non-existent in attack, and there have been reports of unease in his locker room as well as issues between he and Balotelli.

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For the most part, Rodgers has been great for a lot of our players' development, but this year there has been struggles.

And unease between Rodgers and Balotelli? I'm not surprised. Rodgers never wanted him and Balotelli has had issues with pretty much every manager he's been with, including Mancini who he's said before was like a father to him.

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That is all before we even mention defense and the transfer problems. I really do like Rodgers, but I am beginning to believe he is the primary issue for this team.

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Now the transfers I can absolutely agree with. We just need to get our shite together on this whole transfer committee thing.

As for the defense, he's an attack minded coach so obviously we aren't gonna be super strong in the back. I think we've actually been better this year than years past, especially now that Lovren is playing better, so that's a positive to me. Not to mention, Mignolet is in the race for most clean sheets this year. Yea I said it...Simon fricking Mignolet. I think that deserves some cudos.

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I can get down with most of that. My point with striking talent is that not a lot of teams have two highly talented guys on their roster like Balo/Studge. The fact that we get such little production from ANY of our strikers, those two included, is borderline depressing.

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When you have Sterling, Lallana, Moreno and Johnson feeding them balls its no surprise.

Lallana is not a winger and Sterling/Moreno has a lot of work to do.

Johnson needs to move to the MLS.

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The reasons I don't like Sterling are simple. He doesn't pass. He feels like he has to do everything, but he doesn't have the skill to do that yet... nor do I think he will. How many times has he ran right at someone, stoppedn tried to get fancy, and squandered his chance? A ton. And most of those chances there was an opportunity to get an assist.

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yeah, but he's really fricking fast though... like 150k/week fast... :roll eyes:

if it were up to me, i would have sold him like 2 days before yesterday if someone comes at me with an offer...

Have an upvote, sir!!

I think Rodgers has moved him around out of necessity and sterling has wilted a bit under the pressure of trying to carry a team of liverpools stature - but what 20 year old wouldn't?

He's had plenty of assists for his age - look at his pass to Cou yesterday which should have put us in front. I think there is a general lack of confidence in his peers and an trying to do too much.

Sell him if a Suarez offer comes in - but otherwise you have to lock him in.

On other transfer rumors - I think Milner is a terrific piece of business's for several reasons. Cheap. He's flexible and can play multiple roles in multiple tactics. It addresses a need area, not quite as high of a caliber as we would really like, but cheaply enough to serve for a few years while we spend on other areas.

As for Ings - are we really getting and improvement over Borini? for the relatively cheap price tag it's a fine gamble, but it doesn't lessen our need for another top striker.

I think this summer will go a long way towards telling us about Rodgers future and fenways intentions with our future.

LINK

In case you haven't seen

It's a gerrard tribute

Theres a rumor y'all will be signing Ings this summer.

Nothing says "We're firmly committed to finishing 6th in the table" like signing Ings and Milner. God I hope there's more to come than them.